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In a recent 2011 survey, Nature asked its readerswhether they had, or would consider, a genomeanalysis (n=1588) Have not/would not 15% Not sure Would if 13% given the 54% opportunity 18% Have had genome analysis

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One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook30billion pieces of content are shared onFacebook each monthPeople upload 3000images to Flickr every minuteGoogle+ has > 25million users From 20 Social Media Statistics (Jeffbullas)

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4. Scale: an explosion of data http://www.phgfoundation.org/reports/10364/“A single sequencer can now generate in a day what it took 10years to collect for the Human Genome Project”

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5.Partnerships Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: a unique (open) $60M partnership between NIH, FDA, universities and drug companies.“It was unbelievable. Its not science the way most of us have practiced in our careers. But we all realised that we would never getbiomarkers unless all of us parked our egos and intellectual property noses outside the door and agreed that all of our data would be public immediately.” Dr John Trojanowski, University of Pennsylvania

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6. Funding EPSRC expects all those institutions it funds•to develop a roadmap that aligns their policiesand processes with EPSRC’s expectations by1st May 2012;•to be fully compliant with these expectationsby 1st May 2015.http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/expectations.aspx

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“Very few librarians are likely to have specialist scientific or medical knowledge - if you train as a research scientist or a medic, you probably won’t become a librarian.”RLUK/Mary Auckland: Reskilling for Research 2012

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Implications of “Big Data” and data science for organisations in all sectors Predicts a shortage of 190,000 data scientists by 2019http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation

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“The ability to take data-to be able to understandit, to process it, to extractvalue from it, to visualiseit, to communicate it-that’s going to be a hugelyimportant skill in the nextdecades.” Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google

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Libraries are on a data journey-the Informatics Transform isthe first step in a newdirection…